# Can Joplin do "Stacks", like Evernote?

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/can-joplin-do-stacks-like-evernote/14288>\
**Category:** Support\
**Created:** [25 January 2021 12:56 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/can-joplin-do-stacks-like-evernote/14288 "2021-01-25T12:56:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![DadOfRCA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@DadOfRCA](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/DadOfRCA)\
**Post date:** [25 January 2021 12:56 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/can-joplin-do-stacks-like-evernote/14288/1 "2021-01-25T12:56:08Z")

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I'm still researching what solution I'm going to pick to move away from Onenote. Everything seems to revolve around Evernote as a way to migrate. So I'm wondering if Joplin can do something similar to "Stacks" in Evernote?

![Stacks](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/2X/e/edc36754fdde58209a147dbfaff6ceead2d1379f.png)

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**Author:** ![Daeraxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/daeraxa/32/6172_2.png) [@Daeraxa](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Daeraxa)\
**Post date:** [25 January 2021 13:04 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/can-joplin-do-stacks-like-evernote/14288/2 "2021-01-25T13:04:34Z")

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Notebooks can have subnotebooks which can have subnotebooks which can have subnotebooks, how many levels deep it goes I'm not sure but it goes deeper than I have any real need for.  
 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/2X/4/4a5f58e219de4de8d3e4317b360e54fc261aeafc.png)

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**Author:** ![DadOfRCA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8dc957/32.png) [@DadOfRCA](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/DadOfRCA)\
**Post date:** [25 January 2021 13:10 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/can-joplin-do-stacks-like-evernote/14288/3 "2021-01-25T13:10:13Z")

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Oh, holy crap. Thank you.  
All I was doing was right clicking and searching for a similar feature. I had not ideas it was as simple as drag and drop. This is awesome as it's the last thing I need to move over before ditching all Microsoft, Google, etc products in favor of open source solutions and Ubuntu Linux. ![Subnotbooks](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/2X/3/365f94005bf0092d4fc5468f50f8c50062439b61.png)

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**Author:** ![Daeraxa](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/daeraxa/32/6172_2.png) [@Daeraxa](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Daeraxa)\
**Post date:** [25 January 2021 13:15 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/can-joplin-do-stacks-like-evernote/14288/4 "2021-01-25T13:15:47Z")

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No problem. One thing that catches people out sometimes is how to 'promote' a subnotebook up to notebook level. In that case you need to drag the subnotebook up to the top "NOTEBOOKS" banner and it will promote.

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**Author:** ![msbentley](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/msbentley/32/1219_2.png) [@msbentley](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/msbentley)\
**Post date:** [26 January 2021 14:49 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/can-joplin-do-stacks-like-evernote/14288/5 "2021-01-26T14:49:26Z")

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The only difference, which I sometimes miss, is that stacks in evernote, when focussed, would list all of the notes in the contained notebooks. So if I have a stack called "language" then I would see all of the content for notebooks "dutch", "german" etc.

In evernote, the parent notebook is a true notebook, and so when focusses (in my case) it simply shows no notes.

To compare:

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/2X/7/75adf3277e2b5e3fafa7af13d80b97a6aee6e5ba.png)

with

![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/2X/7/70bc096c01415c9f41360e5c3fd14c6faf185544.png)

I don't know if this can be done with plugins, but I would really appreciate the option to toggle whether a parent notebook is a true notebook, or simply a hierarchical "stack" of notebooks.

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**Author:** ![jb261](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/jb261/32/7324_2.png) [@jb261](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/jb261)\
**Post date:** [26 January 2021 14:59 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/can-joplin-do-stacks-like-evernote/14288/6 "2021-01-26T14:59:08Z")

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> [@msbentley](#):
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> The only difference, which I sometimes miss, is that stacks in evernote, when focussed, would list all of the notes in the contained notebooks. So if I have a stack called "language" then I would see all of the content for notebooks "dutch", "german" etc.

You might be able to replicate this using @JackGruber's Note Overview plugin.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/uploads/cozic/original/3X/1/c/1c948e33314e232a0927789508474d8624f4270b.png) [@system](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/system)\
**Post date:** [25 February 2021 14:59 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/can-joplin-do-stacks-like-evernote/14288/7 "2021-02-25T14:59:21Z")

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